Liz Priestley

Manilla

Elsewhere
Liz Priestley ~ a solo exhibition
Opening Thursday 14 May 2026

Liz Priestley’s contemporary landscapes occupy an in-between moment, where land and sky dissolve into atmosphere, and light is suspended at a particular moment of day. Built up through layers of pigmented beeswax, fused with heat, the encaustic surfaces hold a depth and translucency unique to the medium.

Priestley deliberately employs encaustic (wax) as a medium in her creative process, drawn to its architectural essence and its capacity for reduction. This allows her to construct a narrative by building up or selectively carving, scraping and melting away. Her work explores the immediate physical landscape as well as that of the internal landscape of memory and emotional connections to place and time. The resulting images are vehicles by which the viewer may experience their own epiphany of personal, binding memories.

ARTWORKS

Liz Priestley

Landscape Study II

Landscape Study I

Riverline Study III

The Air Between II

The Air Between I

Reflections Beyond II

Reflections Beyond I

Dance of Light

Stormscape

Gilded Light

River Currents

Winter Treeline

A Conjuring

Beyond I

Riverline Study III

Cloud Study X

Twilight's Edge II

Twilight's Edge I

Charon's Way

Traveller’s Resolve

Pink Horizon

Final Crossing

Dawn Echo

Boundless

A Veil Transcendent

Blue & Gold Contemplation

Landscape Study XVIII

Landscape Study XVII

Landscape Study XVI

Landscape Study XV

Landscape Study XIV

Landscape Study XIII

Landscape Study VIII

Landscape Study VII

Landscape Study V

Landscape Study IV

Reverie

Descending Skies II

Entreaty

Beyond II

Glimmer

Riverline Study IV

Riverline Study I

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